Wii Party U, Wii Fit U Delayed Until Late 2013

If you haven't had the opportunity to watch this morning's Nintendo Direct @ E3 2013 presentation, there's been a lot of exciting news. Not all of it has been good, however. Fans expecting Wii Party U and Wii Fit U will have to wait until later this year before they're able to party and get their workout on.

Wii Party U features a standard board game that takes advantage of the Wii U GamePad and Wii U Remote controller capabilities. Wii Party U also boasts 80 brand-new mini games, including table-top mini games. Global President of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata hopes that Wii Party U will be "the definitive party game" based on its wide appeal to consumers. Originally announced for a Summer release during the January 23rd Nintendo Direct, Iwata-san tells fans that Nintendo wishes to continue the development to further improve the game.

Wii Fit U was also announced during last January's Nintendo Direct as a Spring/ Summer 2013 release, but falls into the same software development shortfall as Wii Party U. Iwata-san assures fans that new features will be the result the extended development delay.

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I wasn't that surprised, really. Nintendo really wants to get Wii Fit U right. They want to match the sales success of Wii Fit. We'll see what happens.

Wii Party U looks fun enough. I'm not really a party game person, but with the right group of friends, I can already see how awesome and hysterical party games could be. Nintendo is really focusing on bringing people together, as usual, and I've always loved that.